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PrncssAlay
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26 Apr 2013, 9:17 am

Stargazer43 wrote:
I am definitely going to leave Louisiana/Mississippi because:

1.) Highest rates of high school dropouts
2.) Highest rates of teen pregnancies
3.) Highest rates of obesity
4.) Highest rates of poverty
5.) Everyone is hyper-conservative and very discriminatory against those who don't share their viewpoints of background
6.) I've been through way too many hurricanes
7.) I hate fried food...all they have here is fried food....
8.) No infrastructure conducive to a healthy lifestyle (ex.: walking paths, gyms, bike trails or paths)
9.) I have never been and never will go mud digging (it's the #1 past-time here)
10.) Can't stand redneck culture


You would love Portland, Oregon. It is exactly opposite of everything you have listed above.



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26 Apr 2013, 9:32 am

Chrisicus wrote:
I've heavily considered moving from the UK to the USA, I want to go to an English speaking country but Australia is out because I have a huge fear of tarantulas! I want to live in a warmer place and I've always loved America whenever I've been there. I'm not too fussed about work really, I should have nice options with a maths degree (BSc.)


eric76 wrote:
We have tarantulas in Texas, too. I almost stopped to pick one up off the road one day and take with me to my oldest brother's house. When I got there, I wished that I had gotten it since one of my nephew's junior high aged kids were there. They would have enjoyed having it as a pet.


Chrisicus wrote:
Just done a quick Google, they seem to be in the south that share a border with Mexico so California, Arizona and Texas have them, so all of those states are out! Although according to Google they don't live in LA, just in the mountains by them. :P


I saw a huge tarantula in Rapid City, South Dakota, once--in a motel parking lot. At the time I assumed it had hitched a ride under somebody's car, but then again Rapid City is due north of Texas so who knows.



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26 Apr 2013, 9:36 am

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I consider moving everyday. I spend hours everyday online researching places then change my mind the next day. I am for sure moving at the end of 2017. Am saving every cent I can for that moment. My transient mind just cannot lock in on final destination. Lots of criteria to consider

Where are you living now?



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24 Jun 2013, 6:24 am

I could leave my country and my city, probably in that order. My hometown is dear to me, probably because I grew up there, but I can't understand why I should care about Finland and Finnish people more than other countries and their people. I'm glad we didn't lose our independence during the World War 2 because that would have meant my country would have become a part of the Soviet Union and that just would have been disastrous in many ways. If Finland would have become a part of some sort of paradise on Earth that would have been fine for me. But the Soviet Union was far from a paradise.

The city I'm living at the moment is just a city I'm living at the moment. Some nice people I like to be with live here but I have some friends in some other places too. I don't think I'd become very unhappy if I left my city in the near future (actually I've planned to do so next autumn or spring).

EDIT: I have to add that I don't hate this country, many things are really fine here and I know I should be grateful. But I can't say I love this country or its people (my language is dear to me because I learnt to think and speak in it) - my patriotic or nationalistic feelings are really weak or even nonexistent (I really don't believe in that kind of ideas) so I think leaving this country wouldn't be extremely difficult for me, at least at the moment (when I don't have a Fennoman as my beloved, or any other liabilities that would keep me in this country).


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24 Jun 2013, 6:41 am

I wouldn't mind salt lake city. There's much, much better skiing, better weather, no earthquakes, tornadoes, just no family and I'd have to chain up constantly for work :|


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24 Jun 2013, 6:53 am

Everyday I think about it. Besides the fact there is nothing here for me except a job and a house I rent, I am tired of the tornadoes. Some of you may have heard about the super outbreak that occurred a couple years ago. A huge EF5 got close, two went over the place I work, and a small one took out a section of the neighborhood where I attend church. I’m tired of tornadoes and the terror they bring. I know bad weather is everywhere, but it seems this area has an abundance of über bad weather. To this day, I’m trying to figure out why I’m here and why I stay. If I could find a job elsewhere, I’d leave in a heartbeat.



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24 Jun 2013, 7:53 am

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luvsterriers wrote:
Well to escape DC area's heat, I would totally move to Seattle. But the fall/winter can be gloomy in Seattle. Very rarely does Seattle get hot and humid. I don't think though that Seattle has a metro subway system so I-5 is bad. The airport is small too.

Seattle has had a light-rail system for the past two years, and has had an underground bus tunnel (under downtown) for at least 20 years. Public transportion to and from the suburbs (for Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc) is excellent and it's not just an option of last resort. Also, Sea-Tac Airport is a major and large and efficient airport.

On the subject of DC, I'm longing to visit there sooner or later to LIVE in the Smithsonian Museums for a couple of weeks! Lucky you!


You have to take the good with the bad here. We don't get thunderstorms and we don't get tornadoes. It doesn't rain as much in the summer, nor does it ever exceed 100 degrees. We don't have issues with drought, either. It just can be cloudy for 45 straight days, sometimes. Depends on what you need. We also rarely, if ever, dip below freezing. The weather here isn't as bad as stereotypes like to make it out to be, or maybe I'm used to it.

The bus system isn't that bad, either. The political side/funding of it is an absolute joke, though.


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